complete verse (Numbers 21:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 21:29:

  • Kupsabiny: “Oh, Moab,
    these people who worship Chemosh are destroyed.
    All the young men fell.
    women became prisoners of Sihon
    that king of the Amorites.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Oh Moab, Woe to you!
    You people of Chemosh, you are destroyed!
    [Making] his sons like fugitives [lit.: ones who run away]
    and his daughters like female slaves
    he has given [them] into the hand of Sihon, the Amorite king.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are-to-be-pitied who come-from-Moab! You (plur.) were-destroyed who worship the god Chemosh. You (plur.) who are his children he abandoned to be-taken-captive by Sihon the king of Amornon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You people of Moab, terrible things have happened to you!
    You people who worship your god Chemosh have been annihilated/wiped out!
    The men who worshiped Chemosh have run away and are now refugees,
    and the women who worshiped him have been captured by the army of Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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